The Anti-Drone War tour came to Toronto November 29-30 to raise awareness about a state-sponsored crime against humanity – America's use of unmanned bomber aircraft to conduct wars of intervention in Pakistan, Afganistan, the Middle East and Africa. Over a hundred people attended meetings that included…
by Barry Weisleder Why does the Left pick on Israel? Why do socialists target Israel for so much criticism given the abundance of reactionary and undemocratic regimes in the Middle East and around the world? Isn't Israel a reliable barrier…
Read More Origins of Zionism, and Why Israel is a Major Obstacle to Social Justice
Yasin Kaya - Can Social Democracy Be Reformed? Click here to watch the video Barry Weisleder - Origins of Zionism, and Why Israel is a Major Obstacle to Social Justice Click here to watch the video Jeff Mackler - The Rise…
by Bruce Allen, Vice-President of CAW Local 199, and V.P. Niagara Regional Labour Council (writing in a personal capacity) Just prior to the start of the 2012 Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) Collective Bargaining and Constitutional Convention, held in…
Read More CAW needs action plan to Stop Concessions to Detroit 3
(This article is drawn from information at www.taxjustice.net, compiled and edited by Barry Weisleder.) The world's richest people are hiding $21 Trillion in offshore tax havens worldwide. Actually, it may be as much as $32 trillion. While governments…
Barry Weisleder by Barry Weisleder If you disdain debates on the left, if you abhor pointed polemics, please don't read this article. If you think arguments between leftists are more crippling than clarifying, just stop right now.O.K. Now this article…
Read More The International Socialists and the Labour Movement A Study in Opportunism
Barry Weisleder This article is a response to misrepresentations by Fightback leaders, in the Fightback magazine and on the Toronto Young New Democrats Facebook page, committed against the NDP Socialist Caucus and members of Socialist Action. In the history of…
Read More Cheerleading for Social Democracy — a critique of Fightback (IMT)
by Evan Engering (member of the YSA and UFCW) Scores of labour activists converged on a quiet business park in Mississauga (west of Toronto) on August 22 to deliver a message to Target Stores CEO Gregg Steinhafel. The American retail…
by Eric Kupka As reported here previously, the Liberal provincial government of Quebec is imposing a sharp rise in university and college tuition over the next seven years. This sparked massive demonstrations by students and their supporters throughout the spring…
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Capitalism: The Problem and the Solution, A Legomotion video by Tyler MacKinnon and Ian Riddell.
by Barry Weisleder Greece has perhaps the most politicized population in Europe. 11 million people. Half of them live in Athens/Piraeus. Greece is 80% mountains, 20% agricultural. It won its independence in 1830 after 400 years of occupation by the…
par Robbie Mahood Le 19 mai 2012, le gouvernement libéral du Québec a adopté une loi draconienne, la loi 78, dans le but de mater la grève massive des étudiants qui secoue la société québécoise depuis plus de quatre mois.…
Socialist Action Speech to 26th annual Socialist Celebration of International Workers' Day May Day is our day. Like workers around the world, we take the measure of our forces, consider our challenges, and re-dedicate the movement to socialism. 2011 was…
A previous Liberal government cynically entered into it, and systematically violated it. The present Conservative government thumbed its nose at it from the start, and unceremoniously quit the treaty on Dec. 12. Despite its abject weaknesses, including low targets and…
The big business Conference Board of Canada predicts that 2012 will be a year of major labour-management strife across the Canadian state. The big business Conference Board of Canada predicts that 2012 will be a year of major labour-management strife…
On November 23 police enforced an Ontario Superior Court order to Occupy Toronto to vacate St. James Park, a few blocks from Canada's corporate financial hub. Occupy camps around the world, from Oakland, California, to London, England, from New York…
